Head of SAP Platforms, Tietoevry Tech Services
The challenge
The customer, a global leader in the forest products industry, was challenged with to modernize their SAP Platform to meet diverse business needs. As part of their S/4HANA transformation and transition to a public cloud infrastructure, they faced significant hurdles in harmonizing their SAP Solution Manager environment and controlling escalating costs associated with their traditional on-premises setup while ensuring business continuity. These complexities and inefficiencies were critical barriers to their IT modernization efforts.
The solution
To improve performance and reduce costs, the customer chose to implement a cloud-based solution on AWS (Amazon Web Services) in collaboration with Tietoevry Tech Services. By adopting the new AWS-based SAP Solution Manager (Solman) environment, they successfully minimized costs and eliminated performance bottlenecks. The migration not only optimized system performance, but also provided a scalable and flexible infrastructure which is future proof for the remaining lifecycle of SAP Solution Manager.
The migration to AWS supports the customer's broader platform modernization initiative to migrate all SAP workloads to AWS. This cutting-edge technical solution lays a solid foundation for future AWS deployments, enabling seamless integration, improved efficiency, and the ability to leverage advanced cloud capabilities as they continue their S/4HANA transformation journey.
SAP on Public CloudAbout the customer
For a leading global forest products company, this solution was critical to optimizing performance and cost efficiency during their S/4HANA transformation. Migrating to AWS streamlined their complex SAP operations, reduced overall IT spending, and provided the scalability and flexibility needed for future growth.
Key benefits
Improved performance
Migrating to AWS optimizes system performance by eliminating bottlenecks and ensuring robust and reliable functionality for key SAP applications.
Reduced costs
Moving to AWS significantly reduced IT spending by moving from costly on-premises infrastructure to a more economical, pay-as-you-go cloud model.
Scalability for growth
AWS provided the scalability and flexibility needed to support future growth, laying a solid foundation for seamless integration and leveraging advanced cloud capabilities.
